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Paper, 'Of preparing fish-skins' by J F Gronovius

Reference number: L&P/1/60

Date: 1741

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Subject: Zoology

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'A method of preparing specimens of fish, by drying their skins, as practised by John Frid. Gronovius, M. D. at Leyden'

Read 4 March 1741.

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L&P/1/60
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1741
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
2 pages
Format
Manuscript

Creator name

Johann Friedrich Gronovius

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Johann Friedrich Gronovius, Paper, 'Of preparing fish-skins' by J F Gronovius, 1741, L&P/1/60, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_1_60/paper-of-preparing-fish-skins-by-j-f-gronovius, accessed on 20 June 2025

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